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First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

Radioteacher — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:10:42 GMT

Brian Krebs discusses an attack on ATM's that has been happening in Asia and Europe for a long time. Not long ago word spread that this happened in Mexico and now it is here.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/first-jackpotting-attacks-hit-u-s-atms/

Re: First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

Joshua_E — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:07:39 GMT

Interesting article it confirmed what I expected those that the must vulnerable were the stand alone ATM you see at sporting events and convenience stores. I use to work for an armored vehicle service that delivered cash to ATM and I always viewed these as easy targets as the bank ATMs even the stand alone drive thru ones had a considerable amount of physical security to deter would be thieves from tampering with them.

Re: First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

Radioteacher — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:02:03 GMT

What surprised me was the time needed to do this attack. They have to connect to the hard drive, infect it, reset equipment using a borescope. This is not 30 seconds and they are gone.

Plus it will take quite a while to remove the cash.

I am sure that the FBI and Secret Service will find them and parade them all over as a deterrent.

Law Enforcement as a control.

Paul